President Josep Maria Bartomeu already announced after the debacle in Lisbon that the time had come to start making decisions and it seems that the first ones will soon fall. The top Blaugrana leader, with almost no time yet to take on the 2-8 debacle against Bayern, called an extraordinary meeting of its board for this Monday to decide the direction of the institution, immersed in an unprecedented sports and institutional crisis.
In the last meeting that he called urgently, after the crisis opened by ‘Barçagate’, ended with a real tsunami of desertions by some managers, led by what was to be the ‘dolphin’, Emili Rousaud, critical of the president's way of running the club and managing the crisis.
This Monday meeting may be even more crucial for the future of the club. Nobody is aware that on the table will be the name of the future coach, the list of registrations and cancellations and even the possibility of calling an election.
Obviously, the first decision will be the announcement of the immediate dismissal of Quique Setién after concluding one of the worst seasons in the recent history of the club. Once again the name of Mauricio Pochettino will be among the options and it is expected, once again, that several managers show their absolute rejection towards the possibility that a person who has publicly shown his animosity for the club and the values it represents will occupy the dock.
But It will not be the only decision, as the future of the club is at stake. The list of casualties points to important and the renewal of the staff as a must after the debacle in Lisbon.
Nor is it ruled out that the call for elections is valued on the agenda, although in principle Bartomeu would only agree to advance them a few months, that is, instead of June as planned, finally do them in March. The intention of the president with the advance of elections a few months would be to stop the coup, as he did in 2015 after the crisis in Anoeta, announcing in January that there would be elections in June. Play that went perfectly because that year the team ended up winning the treble and later ended up winning at the polls in a comfortable way.